Has it occurred to you that the left ALSO knows the signs of decadence you know, because it all goes back to Robert Graves’ book? Yes, I do know that the US has lots of the signs of decadence of the late Roman EMPIRE. Has it occurred to you that the other forms of decadence in society are also cosplay? No? Well, the seventies were a form of decadence. Other than that, the climate doomers are stuck scaring little kids and talking about how the kids have climate anxiety. the last time - other than the commenter, and honestly, he might very well be from the for-pay troll farm - that I heard someone genuinely concerned about the doom, gloom, we’re all frying soon, was mid-nineties. So they try to run with climate doom, and you know….

(Could be either.) So what we’re seeing is a large scale replay with (natch) media amplification but the people on the ground are somewhere between unconvinced and ignoring it.

In the same way no one really believes the dooms that either were general opinion in the seventies, or I believed in because I was a little kid. And we saw that both under Reagan and Trump prices and availability of oil came back, which means it’s not “we’re running out of oil.” We remember when they shut down the pipeline and fracking. It doesn’t work with the people on the ground because “we’re running out of oil” is now seen to be a blatant lie. The point is not that the seventies are returning, but that the people that be are hard forcing a replay of it, in appearance. I don’t think it came across on my Seventies post that it wasn’t “real”.

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